If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If there's very strong civic unrest you can see a strong party of the Right emerging, whether it's UKIP [The UK Independence… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The inspiration can come in such small ways that if you sit there just waiting for the big epiphany you'll sit there… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
These days you can't write anybody off. If anybody is a right-wing populist, you can't write them off now because that is… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If you have no drugs, then you have revolution, and then drugs will be the only thing stopping that. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I can't really say - if I've run out of ideas until I've had my next set of ideas. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Ah wonder if anybody this side of the Atlantic has ever bought a baseball bat with playing baseball in mind. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If I don't have something to do, I'm not the kind of person who can sit on a beach on holiday. I've… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
Bowie's death is a very emotional thing. My generation of working-class Britain, it feels like we lost our spiritual leader, our guru.… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
You know, people tend to get stereotyped for about forty percent of their behavior, so if you're completely crazy forty percent of… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think just getting up and getting to the desk is a big thing. If you can do that, you're in the… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If the media is just a cheerleader for an authoritarian populist, who isn't that popular, then we're in a sorry state. The… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
The thing about drugs is that it [dealing] gives people an income to deal with, and it also gives people a compelling… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, "Oh, I don't need to be patronized by… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I think that there are just so many people that can't afford not to have Obama win. He's gotten so many disenfranchised… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
People even split up by text message, they dump each other by text. Everything seems so disposable, so throwaway, but you have… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share Image
I don't see [ Trainspotting ] as an albatross, I see it more as a calling card. It's got me out to Hollywood, I've… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
He emphasised basic truths: you are not dying yet, you have to live your life until you are. Underpinning them was the belief that… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
“Without this kickstart to my day, I'd be lost. A day without a morning run is a day you fumble through, rather than one… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
“There's nae reasoning wi some cats. You say 'reason', they mew 'treason'. Ken?” — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
It's crazy for somebody who's kind of empowered and wealthy like myself to say, "Oh, I don't need to be patronized by the state,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
If it's something that I feel uncomfortable with, that's a reason for me to write it. I kind of like to make myself feel… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
There's nothing worse than a violent beating from an unremarkable person. Physical violence with someone is too much like shagging them. Too much id… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
If I stop working and publishing, and TV, and film and all that, I would be dead within a couple of weeks. I don't… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
I can see why the Russians love Robert Burns, I think that Russians and Koreans have a very similar outlook to Scots. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
If you continue to transfer the wealth of the population of the planet to a very small amount of people, it becomes untenable at… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
Most middle-class people I know don't really live like me. Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security,… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
As soon as you've written it, you're thinking about how it can move into different mediums. — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
“Begbie doesnae even notice; he's in his element, particularly good at funerals in the way a lot ay psychopaths tend tae be. Ah suppose… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
I'm more of a warrior than you'll ever be. I believe in the class war. I believe in the battle of the sexes. I… — Irvine Welsh Copy Share
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![“We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted, and we spoke to a lot of people. When I met James [McAvoy] in the Soho Hotel with Jon Baird, the director, he looked about ten years old. I thought there's no way he's going to be a…” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d43/irvine-welsh-843_alcoholics_we-were-looking-for-someone-who-could-ge_1584255.jpg)
![“The thing about drugs is that it [dealing] gives people an income to deal with, and it also gives people a compelling drama in their lives that they used to get from the office and the factory, and they're no longer there. What happens if you have everything in the hands of the state, particularly…” quote by Irvine Welsh](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ac8/irvine-welsh-843_compelling_the-thing-about-drugs-is-that-it-dealing_2618440.jpg)
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